Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined Sheriff Leroy Baca, Metro CEO Art Leahy, Santa Claus and others this morning at Union Station to promote free rides on Metro buses and trains on both Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The free rides will be offered from 9 p.m to 2 a.m. and are [continue reading]
BAY AREA TRAFFIC AND SMOG: I think it’s high time that other cities/regions get due credit for their lousy traffic and smog. I was in San Francisco area this past weekend and took the above photo on a decidedly un-breezy day when San Francisco’s smog output wasn’t being blown inland [continue reading]
After four long years, the westbound side of the First Street Viaduct reopened to traffic this week. The bridge was closed in order to build the Metro Gold Line extension to East Los Angeles. The First Street Viaduct is the second oldest of the classic Los Angeles River bridges designed [continue reading]
This weekly post features news from other transit agencies and planners from around the world. Did we miss a good story? Let us know in the comments. Detroit abandons light rail dreams, plans BRT routes In past editions of this series we’ve looked at the woes of public transit in [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. The Best CityReads of 2011 (The Atlantic Cities) Looking to tuck in over the holidays with some long-form urban writing? Nate Berg [continue reading]
Margaret Lazzari’s designs for Sherman Way Station on the Orange Line Extension includes two, 27-foot long maps that will be embedded into concrete platforms. The west platform will house a map of 1910 era Owensmouth, with a free-flowing Los Angeles River and an undeveloped natural landscape. An adjacent art panel will [continue reading]
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Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. First Street Bridge opens today. Finally! (The Eastsider LA) We all love progress and the opening of the First Street Bridge today is [continue reading]
photo by Tomfalcon, via Flickr creative commons I have no idea where this was taken — I found it on Flickr while surfing through dozens of boring and bad photos of buses that users had posted. The photo, titled “Bus No 3” was taken with the iPhone’s Instagram app. To [continue reading]
Transit users in the San Fernando Valley probably didn’t notice anything different last Friday when the second century of public transportation in the area got underway. December 16, 1911, was the first day of rail service from Los Angeles to Van Nuys, a development which quickly transformed the Valley from outlying area to commutable [continue reading]
